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Now That Doesn’t Make Sense

Posted in Opinion, Trains, tagged on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Bought a train ticket today and handed over the plastic. Metro train person: “PIN or sign?” Me: “PIN thanks.” Metro train person: “You need to sign it anyway.” Me: “That doesn’t make sense.” Metro train person: “I guess it’s just a double check.” Me: (rolled eyes) Metro train person: “I guess it’s just a double [...]

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Sydney Airport – Fail!

Posted in Opinion, Travel on October 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I flew into Sydney Airport this morning. Never been a big fan of Sydney, especially flying into / out of there. We were advised in Melbourne that the flight was delayed due to single runway operations in Sydney. We ended up leaving 20 minutes late. Ah, I thought. It must be because there’s a westerly [...]

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Les Twentyman – I Hope You’ve Been Misquoted

Posted in Media, Opinion, tagged , on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve admired Les Twentyman’s work for quite a while and am delighted that his health is on the improve. I certainly hope that he was misquoted, or his quotes were taken out of context by The Age this morning. The Age reported on a police report that showed that the majority of the violence in [...]

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Homelessness – Two Minds

Posted in Opinion, tagged , , on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The back page of the latest The Big Issue has an advertisement for a photo competition, sponsored by the City of Sydney. Nothing remarkable about that you might think. Except that, one of the categories for the competition is people who are homeless – photographers are being encouraged to take photos of the homeless for [...]

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Sporting Legends

Posted in AFL, Opinion, tagged , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some of our sportsmen deserve, by the way they play their respective games, the way they carry themselves in public life, and what they do for their sports after they’ve finished playing, to be given legend status. Two of those people have hit the news this week, for entirely different reasons. Ron Barassi has been [...]

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Muthiah Muralitharan

Posted in Cricket, Opinion, tagged , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Age is reporting this morning that Muthiah Muralitharan will be turning out for Victoria to play Twenty20 cricket next season. This is cause for frustration on a number of fronts. Whatever happened to the honour of representing one’s state or country? I would have dearly loved to have had the honour to represent my [...]

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Extra Connex People At Parliament Station

Posted in Government, Opinion, Travel, tagged on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So what’s the extra Connex people on the platforms at Parliament station achieving? The cynics amongst us might say it gives the company more visibility close to where key contract decisions get made. Wouldn’t it be better spending the money on having more suburban stations manned and making the service safer at night?

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Tokenism

Posted in Opinion, tagged on June 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »

The ever growing popularity of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook has resulted in people taking up a lot more causes. Recent examples of this are the campaign to change a Twitter avatar to green as a form of protest against the alleged rigging of the Iran elections, and a plethora of Facebook [...]

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National Times Reborn

Posted in Media, Opinion, tagged , on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Age is reporting this morning that Fairfax is going to relaunch the National Times, as an online edition. Fantastic! My previous blog entries probably give some clues about what I think about the Australian media industry in general. Generally low quality and constantly looking for sensation rather than strong analysis and reporting. If Fairfax [...]

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Gordon Ramsay v Tracy Grimshaw

Posted in Media, Opinion, tagged , , on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Australian media organisations – GIVE ME A BREAK! How many human rights atrocities occurred? How many children from third world countries died of malnutrition? How many people died from cancer? How many innocent people were attacked in the streets? How many people were belted up by their partners? While you have been giving these mindless [...]

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